History
Ishida Station opened on 1 April 1915 as a station on the privately run Kokura Railway. With the company's nationalisation on 1 May 1943 it came under the Railway Ministry and became a station on the Soeda Line (today's Hitahikosan Line). On 19 November 1956 a short-cut line connecting Jōno and Ishida opened; passenger trains were all routed via the short-cut, and the line to Higashi-Kokura was given over to freight only. Freight handling ended on 15 January 1960, parcel handling ended on 20 October 1971 (when the station was made unstaffed), and JR Kyushu took over at the privatisation of JNR on 1 April 1987. The Taishō-era station building was rebuilt in April 2002. The station was again made unstaffed on 26 March 2016, and on 4 March 2017 northbound rapid trains began stopping there.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-22.
Notes
Although Ishida is on the Hitahikosan Line — historically a part of the Soeda Line — its short-cut to Jōno is now the standard passenger routing, with the original alignment to Higashi-Kokura reduced to freight services from late 1956 onwards.